Archaic Egyptian language
| Archaic Egyptian | |
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| Region | Ancient Egypt |
| Era | evolved into Old Egyptian by 2600 BC |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Archaic Egyptian[1] is the stage of the Egyptian language spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, which lasted up to about 2600 BC, after which the language is considered Old Egyptian. The first known inscriptions in Archaic Egyptian date from around 3400 BC.[2] They are the earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphic texts.
References
- ↑ Bard, Kathryn A.; Steven Blake Shubert (1999). Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. p. 325. ISBN 0-415-18589-0.
- ↑ "Inscriptions Suggest Egyptians Could Have Been First to Write". The New York Times. 16 December 1998. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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